Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh

Art Jury Member
Jorn Ebner
Leonardo Log
Web art
ARTIST STATEMENT
Leonardo Log is a browser-based application consisting of two
components: a Hub and a log. Upon start-up, visitors have to
construct the application: first, the Exit window (which closes
Leonardo Log at any time), then the log, and finally a node within
the Hub.
From the Hub, six animation sequences start, and they transmit
text to the log. This final “poem” can be sent as an email message
from the log and will consequently be available for further textual
changes or simple archiving.
The texts refer to six existential situations. They describe the
following imaginary objects, which could inspire stability or
instability in fluid or static moments: Fluidity Simulator, Mourning
Carton, Pleasure Fountain, Quarrel Staff, Spurt Connection, and
Think Container. The animations contain abstract and figurative
image sequences: associative drawings that occasionally move
across several windows.
Visitors have to discover links; the navigation is hidden in drawing
elements. Each animation has a different structure. Some elements
have to be moved, some must be clicked on, some are simply
looked at. Users can send the resulting log book via email and
use it as a further reference point amidst existential confusion.
Electronic Art and Animation Catalog Art Gallery Jury Artworks
CONTACT
Jorn Ebner
Independent Artist
138 St. lawrence Square
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1RH
United Kingdom
j.ebner@britishlibrary.net
www.leonardolog.org
COLLABORATORS
Oliver Böhm, PHP programming
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
Leonardo Log works with Javascript windows that visually
communicate with each other. From the main image sequence,
smaller windows open up with extensions to the sequence. The
intention was to develop a distinct visual structure that would only
be possible in a browser. Each image sequence is positioned in
relation to the Javascript windows and in relation to the screen,
so that the work is not located in the browser alone but in the
monitor or screen of the viewer.
Leonardo Log was funded through an AHRB Research Fellowship.
It is part of a series of works that began with Leonardo Log
(Klanglandschaft), a sound work directed by Horst Konietzny that
was performed and installed at iCamp Neues Theater, München,
in 2002.